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Running head: REVIEW OF THE REVISED BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY

Testing and Assesssment: Comprehensive review of the revised Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-IA)
Daniel Beaulieu
McGill University

The Revised BDI (1993)

Publication Dates: 1961-93
Authors: Aaron T. Beck and Robert A. Steer.
Acronym: BDI-IA
Price Data, 1994: $46 per complete kit including 25 record forms and manual ('93, 24 pages); $25.50 per 25 record forms; 22.50 per manual

Introduction

The revised Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-IA), introduced at the Center for Cognitive Therapy (CCT) in 1971, is a 21 item self-report rating inventory which measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms for the purpose of assessing the severity of depression in adolescents and adults (BDI, 1993). The BDI "has become one of the most widely accepted instruments in clinical psychology and psychiatry for assessing the intensity of depression in psychiatric patients and for detecting possible depression in normal......

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